Trancecore

1990 - Proto-trance

The first of a series of mixes that charts the evolution of trance, from it's roots in the early 90s to the world domination of the turn of the century.  This one takes in some KLF tracks from 1988 and 1989.  A very different sound from the sound of modern trance but the building blocks are there - the hypnotic rhythms,  the sweeping synths. 

Tracklisting

1. The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance 1)
2. The KLF - Kylie Said Trance
3. Blue Pearl - Naked in the Rain (KLF Pure Trance Mix)
4. Age of Chance - Time's Up (Timeless Mix)
5. The Mackenzie - Higher In The Sky
6. Dance 2 Trance - We Come In Peace (1990 Original Mix)
7. Age of Love - Age of Love (Boeing Mix)
8. Tyrell Corp - Running (Dub Mix)
9. Electric Voodoo - Ohm (Live in Alentejo Mix)
10. Liasons D - He Chilled Out (Remix)
11. CJ Bolland -Get Busy Time
12. Techno Bert - Neue Dimensiom
13. Interactive - The Techno Wave
14. Ravebusters - Powerplant (Original Mix)
15. Konzept - Hypnautic Beats (Hype Mix)
16. Rhythm Device - Dream Trance
17. CJ Bolland - Heaven On Earth
18. Sleepwalker - I Got You (Remix)
19. D-Shake - Techno Trance (Paradise is Now)

The Evolution Of Trance - 1988-1990

trancecore mix

1. Sander Van Doom - Riff (Original Mix)
2. CRW - I Feel Love (Dj Jamx & Leon Remix)
3. Orjan Nilsen - Mjuzik (Original Mix)
4. Cliff Coenraad - Gone South (Original Mix)
5. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (Sequential One Remix)
6. W&W - Impact (Original Mix)
7. John O'Callaghan, Timmy & Tommy - Talk to Me (Original Mix)
8. Chicane - Saltwater (Original Mix)
9. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three 'n' One Mix)
10. First State feat. Sarah Howells - Reverie (Dash Berlin Remix)
11. Above & Beyond Feat. Richard Bedford - Sun And Moon (Club Mix)

PonGi - Tranceology 4 (Classic Spring Tunes)

Blog post: http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2011/10/pearsall-presents-rampage-turbo-8/

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 8

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Mixed on two Technics 1210’s and a Pioneer DJM-600 in London, October 2011
(72:35, 166 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Style: Classic freeform hardcore

Tracklisting:

01. Miss Nic & DJ Swoon – Der Sturm (GBT)
02. M-Zone – Into The Future (Jon The Dentist Future Mayhem) (Boscaland)
03. Lab 4 – Psychoactivated (Trebleate)
04. Tripswitch – Ram Raider (GBT)
05. Citadel Of Kaos – Aux 5 (xy2)
06. Eruption – Let The Music (Bang The Future Remix) (United Dance)
07. AG Systems – Active Tekno (Stompin Choonz)
08. Teknotyx – Time Becomes A Loop (Acid Test)
09. DJ Energy – Raver’s Revenge (Nu Energy)
10. Bang The Future – A Tardis To Brooklyn (GBT)
11. Brisk & Trixxy – Back To The Top (JAL Platinum)
12. Simon Apex – Time For The Sale (No Trix)
13. G.S.I. – Twister (Krafty)
14. Apollo & Burst – Drop That Beat (Space Race)
15. Distressed Frequencies – Victimised (Nu Energy)
16. DSU – The Dawn (Digital Beats)
17. Energy & DNA – The Bastard (Remix Records)
18. Marc Smith – Encounters (Nu Energy)
19. Trixxy – Here To Invade (Bonkers)
20. Sharkey – Hard Life (React)

Rampage Turbo Mixes

Rampage Turbo 8 (Banging Old School Trancecore!)

The 11th edition of my Squat Rocking series — dedicated to the sounds of the London illegal raves of my youth — is a special tribute to an obscure but brilliant label: Organgrinder Records. Run by Zebedee and Lawrence, Organgrinder never had the name recognition of labels like Stay Up Forever, Routemaster, or Smitten, but it played a vital role in the scene’s ecosystem. Every label mattered! I've always loved their uncompromising, no-nonsense releases, so I thought it was time to shine a little spotlight on them. Enjoy!

Read more about the mix: https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/04/pearsall-presents-squat-rocking-11-organgrinder-records-1997-2001/

Check out the other mixes in the series: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/squat-rocking-free-party-music

Recorded in Berlin, October 2024
100% Vinyl
(65:59, 151 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. Gizelle - Does The Fire Burn [Organgrinder]
02. Geezer - Morally Diminished [Organgrinder]
03. Underground Sound - No Mirror, No Line (Geezer Remix) [Organgrinder]
04. DJ Orange Peel - Chemical Warfare [Organgrinder]
05. Dogs on Rope - Prozak Nation [Organgrinder]
06. DJ Orange Peel - Citric Acid [Organgrinder]
07. Skank - Fly Squatter [Organgrinder]
08. Geezer - Gurning [Organgrinder]
09. Underground Sound - Us & Them, U & Me [Organgrinder]
10. Geezer - Fat Freddy [Organgrinder]
11. Geezer - Resistor [Organgrinder]
12. DJ Orange Peel - Crackhead [Organgrinder]
13. DJ Zebedee - Weirdo Magnet [Organgrinder]
14. Dogs on Rope - Buzz Saw (Kids on Drugs Remix) [Organgrinder]
15. Skank - Da Killer Weed [Organgrinder]

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Squat Rocking 11 - Organgrinder Records 1997-2001 (A tribute to a key old skool London acid techno label!)

This year I'm kicking off a new mix series to celebrate the first 25 years of this century: 21st Century Music! Each mix will contain only music from this century. To kick things off, here's a mix of proper techno music from the beginning of the century. This is very personal for me, as this is a point at which I was really engaged with techno - listening to it, dancing to it, thinking about it, and playing it. This is the point when I was a student at Edinburgh University, and I was visiting the (sadly no longer with us) Studio 24 on Calton Road practically every weekend with friends to enjoy techno clubs like Dogma, Pillbox, Apex, Subtle Logic, and more. 

This was a time when techno was really fun and interesting, the time of 'hard grooves', of funky techno, of high impact, danceable music, before the walls of minimal closed in and techno got really, really boring for a while. There's been a revival of this style in recent years (see my Stranger tribute mix, for instance), which is not surprising, because this style of techno is just so much more fun than minimal.

Enjoy!

More techno mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techno-mixes

Read more about this mix (including my essay Edinburgh Techno Daze): https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/05/pearsall-presents-proper-techno-2000-2005-21st-century-music-001/

Recorded in Berlin, March 2025
100% Vinyl
(79:53, 183 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. John Selway - Acid Morning [Aciieeed!]
02. Bryan Zentz - D-Clash (Slam Remix) [Intec]
03. Black Odyssey - The Stand [Blackflag]
04. Joris Voorn - Shining [Sino]
05. Eric Borgo & Dani Konig - Konetic [GoodLife]
06. Umek - Voices of Africa (Voice 2) [Primate]
07. Co-Fusion - 6 Angles [Pro-Jex]
08. Dave Clarke - Before I Was So Rudely Interrupted (Part 1 for the Floor) [iCrunch]
09. Sterac - Sinosphere (John Thomas Remix) [Sino]
10. Andrew Richley & Ryan Rivera - Backbiting [Primate]
11. Sonic Perverts - Slag [Punish]
12. Robert Hood - Outlast [M-Plant]
13. Technasia - Nebula Dance [Technasia]
14. Umek - Beroxan [Consumer Recreation]
15. Steve Rachmad - Zero ID 2 A1 [Zero ID]
16. Christian Smith & John Selway - Giant [Bugged Out!]
17. DJ Misjah - Nova [Zync]
18. Mike Wade - Evolution [Archetype]
19. Punisher - Seduction [Seismic]
20. Sonic Perverts - Strip City [Punish]
21. Pounding Grooves vs DJ Jerome - Scratch [Fine Audio]
22. DJ Misjah & Groovehead - Trippin' Out (DJ Steph K & K-Drive Remix) [X-Trax]
23. Lochi - Acid Junkies [Routemaster]
24. Technasia - Acid Storm [Technasia]
25. The Advent - Ice Planet Theme [Kombination Research]

Proper Techno 2000-2005 [21st Century Music 001]

Green Edition All Vinyl All The Time few extra classics in this one enjoy folks 💚

ABSOLUTE EUPHORIA GREEN

As voted by the DI.FM listeners
https://www.di.fm/oldschoolacid

01. [00:00:00] Kick.S - X1746 - Kick.S
02. [00:06:46] DJ HMC - LSD (Steve Ward Acid Manipulation) - Reflector
03. [00:11:07] Kick.S - X1756 - Kick.S
04. [00:20:34] 747 - Stairway (Original Mix) - Aquaregia
05. [00:25:22] Calogero Alaimo - The Kraken (Original Mix) - Back In Black
06. [00:29:16] Paul Renard - Amsterdam Artis - Brique Rouge
07. [00:34:22] Fuzz Face - Old Friends (Original Mix) - Communique Rec
08. [00:39:09] SYNC24 - Rise (Original Mix) - TuneCore
09. [00:44:11] The Kosmik Kommando - Paradigm - Rephlex (1993)
10. [00:50:50] DANZAH - Acidity Regulator (Original Mix) - Modular States
11. [00:56:06] Paul Renard (NL) - Acidez (Original Mix) - Zodiak Commune Records
12. [01:01:04] Oniris - Stay (Josh Wink Acid Dub) - WTF! Music
13. [01:07:21] DIST_42 - Lost In Techno (Acid Mix) - Gain Plus
14. [01:11:37] Paul Renard - E17 (Original Mix) - Zodiak Commune Records
15. [01:15:46] Cresta, D72 - This Is Acid! (Extended Mix) - Black Hole Recordings
16. [01:20:22] Wehbba - Ticprei (Original Mix) - HIFN
17. [01:24:56] Envelopez - Pride and Effort (Original Mix) - MTDN Audio Rec
18. [01:29:27] DSTRTD SGNL - Sentiment (Extended Mix) - Acalwan
19. [01:33:20] Jay Zoney - Destroying Evil (Original Mix) - Eternal Drive Recordings
20. [01:37:34] BLONDEX - Models - STORMY MUSIC
21. [01:41:53] Kick.S - X1841 - Kick.S
22. [01:48:37] Vini Vici, Maddix, Shibui - Spiritum (Extended Version) - NITRON music
23. [01:52:40] Hardwell, Alex Hepburn, Azteck - Anybody Out There (A*S*Y*S Extended Remix) - Revealed Recordings
24. [01:56:42] Gunjack - ACIDF4K (Original Mix) - Resilient Recordings
25. [02:01:41] Acid Ray - Fckng Lovely - Acid Ray
26. [02:07:43] SAMOH - Lush (Original Mix) - Fra.ctal
27. [02:13:35] Kick.S - X1848 - Kick.S
28. [02:19:52] SAMOH - Illuminated Darkness (Original Mix) - Fra.ctal
29. [02:27:25] Alan Backdrop - Baxline (Original Mix) - De Rio
30. [02:32:13] Joey Risdon - Relentless - Acid Wizard Records

DI.FM's Top 30 Acid Techno Tracks of 2024

01. Chris Van Neu - Trance Kisses Acid (Original Mix) - ACID Soule Records
02. onTune - Take The Red Pill, Take The Blue Pill? (Extended Mix) - Who's Afraid Of 138?!
03. Chris Ogden - Electric Festival (Original Mix) - KRZM Records
04. Shadym - 16 Ocean Planet (Original Mix) - Dreizehn Schallplatten
05. Ninu Brt - Expressions of Sea (Original Mix) - Timefly Records
06. Ninu Brt - Earth Energy (Original Mix) - Timefly Records
07. Air of Wave - Hypno Waves (Original Mix) - Physical Techno Recordings
08. Air of Wave - My Universe (Original Mix) - Physical Techno Recordings
09. Alecid - Salvation Ritual (Original Mix) - Altered Reality Records
10. From Gaudi to Shiva [FGTS] - YOUR ABYSSES (Makina mix) - Self Released
11. DJ Reiz - Simple Ways (Original Mix) - Union Trance Mission
12. Intuition - Arcana 17 (Original Mix) - slash.label
13. Nous Klear - Dolphin (Original Mix) - The Acid Mind Recordings
14. Epifanix - My Unfinished Goodbye - Jahanam
15. Joey Risdon - Emotional Acid Support - Acid Wizard Records
16. Northern Cold - Titan (Original Mix) - EONS
17. Northern Cold - Proxima (Original Mix) - EONS
18. Northern Cold - Exposure (Original Mix) - EONS
19. Novlik,Pattie Love - Divine (Original Mix) - Novlik
20. Abel Zuri - Imminent Contact (Original Mix) - Other Times Records
21. Dj El Gris - Party at the Ufo (Original Mix) - Other Times Records
22. Mirrorlie7 - Black Snow (Infernal Gift Remix) - Trance Roots

Assorted Hard Trance Volume 22 (2025) [145-165 BPM]

Andy C - Club Telepathy - The Wax - Stratford, London - Late 1994

This month's podcast comes from longtime friend of the label, Louk! A familiar name in the scene, this guy has been behind countless stellar productions over the years, while running his own promo service, providing services to a plethora of massive labels. Hes not a half bad DJ either!

Enjoy this cracker of a mix!

Plug N Play - What Is Techno [EDM]
Crazy Erg - 412 Seconds Time To Hide (Andreas Kraemer Mix) [Jerk]
Lluis Ribalta - Full Force [Rawsery]
E-Dancer - Warp [KMS]
Coutts - Pufsa [Apex]
Reloader - Disco Sluts [Jerk]
UK Gold - Turn Around (Bandulu Apache Formation Remix) [Primevil]
DJ Tonio + Laurent Ho - Jocker (Henrik B Remix) [Error 404]
Audiowarp - Rise Of The Bezerk [Corrupted Data]
Schall & Rauch - You See That Voice [Construct Rhythm]
Louk - Good Morning [CD-R]
Zoid - Mass Madrass [More Punk Than Funk]
Infamous Player - Glitch [Player Records]
Lars Huismann - Mirage [Vault]
Static Drum - External [Logistic]
Ade Fenton & Antony Thomas - Coded (Jamie Bissmire Remix) [Advanced]
Brainshaker - Final Countdown [Tech Aways]
Mark EG & Chrissi - Compressed (Chris McCormack Remix) [Blackout Audio]
Geezer - Raw 45 (A2) [R.A.W]
Steve Redhead - Silent Observer [X Erie]
Insense - Grimlock [Tri-Lamb]
RanchaTek & Eddie Santini - Insane [Resilient Recordings]
Disx3 - Unholy Pray [Art Of Perception]

https://www.facebook.com/louk909/

Keep On Techno Podcast 051 - Louk

Cricky Lyttle Live @ Cricks 40th

Here's the exclusive DJ set bestowed upon us here at RIOT by the London acid king himself. This is a true acid work out, believe it. Enjoy .................... LOUD :-)

Track List:

Sterling Moss & Syber Symon - Untitled
Chris Liberator & Sterling Moss - Pressure 
A.P. – Untitled
TASSID - Down Boy 
Austin Corrosive with Jason Doghouse – Untitled
Mobile Dogwash & Benji 303 – Triple Trouble 
John Rowe - World Gone Mad 
Steve Mills - Rock That Shit 
Steve Mills & Chris Liberator - This is the Way We Do It 
Chris Liberator & Sterling Moss - Scum Like Us Like Acid 
Sterling Moss & Miro Hard Party – Untitled
Bad Boy Pete - Acid Party (Chris Liberator & The Geezer Remix) 
The Dice feat. Tiddles - Angry Voice (Chris Liberator & Sterling Moss Remix)

RIOT Radio Show

Chris Liberator DJ set on RIOT - 30th October 2015

You're My Angel (Synthwulf's Trancecore Mix)

The very best Hardtrance, Uk Makina, & Trancecore from D-Trance,CoreCreator, Dj Nemesis.

This mix is orignal as its not abounce/donk mix but a branch out to the new style hardtrance thats rocking clubs like Hangar-13 and tribal church 


VITALBASS--TRANCECORE UPROAR--2012 END OF YEAR MIX

American in Berlin! I've been a dj since 1997, playing across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the variety of mixes. I love it all! 

Want recommendations? Drop me a DM and I'll hook you up. 

I sometimes play at Berlin clubs, but mostly I am a hardcore vinyl collector and bedroom mixer. Check out my blog at www.sonicrampage.org/blog

Rampage Turbo 8 (Banging Old School Trancecore!)

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